I think this would be great for everybody, because OpenOffice 3.0 has A LOT of improvements that will help people that uses this kind of program constantly to migrate from MS Office to OpenOffice.
Support for MS Office 2007 documents and PDF editing are two good examples.

I know that Intrepid will be released in 15 days, but I think there aren't going to be a lot of crazy bugs to be fixed in "only" 15 days by developers if this program gets upgraded in Ubuntu repositories!

Think about that and let's do this now, instead of waiting more six months (Ubuntu 9.04) just to get this great program by default... you know, if more good programs comes by default, more the newbies and veterans will like!

We do understand about the usablity of Writer,

I do suggest that the opening window of the writer should not have the page border set by default.

It looks different and causes the new user to panic.

Hence it should have less factors of "differences" but have its own identity.

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I often make documents which I quickly need to save. In MS Word it then simply gives the first few words as filename option which you can then of course change as you like, but it is at least something.

If I save something in OOo it doesn't give anything. So if I need to save something I cannot simply click save > save. I need to think of a name. And although that is not a hard thing, if I'm in the rush of work and I got a document which simply should have the same title as the first few words in the document (eg. "friday-list for Bob") I want it to go quick.

It is a small thing, but it would make my life again a little bit easier. :-)

Opening OpenOffice program takes way too much for normal use. I have been using Microsoft Office, but it starts way faster then OpenOffice. Can't OpenOffice be made to quickly start-up. It probably starts up too many features that no-one needs.

Tracker is a useful tool for fast finding file contents even in heaps of tens of thousands of files in hundreds of subdirectories. Last year the program seemed to have been able to index ODF files (see http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-459959.html) but today it does not.

Without ODF support Tracker lacks a big part of its usefulness. Neither my text documents nor my spreadsheets are indexed at the moment. If I understand the forum posting correctly, there once was a packet named O3read which did the translation into plain text for Tracker, but this package is not included in the repositories any longer.

How can the ODF support become implemented into Tracker again?

Ubufox is very clever at wrapping the Firefox extensions and add-ons feature with the Ubuntu package manager.

A similar thing should be done with Open Office extensions - so that installing an extension with the Open Office package manager integrates well with Ubuntu.

One thing that surprised me once I was testing the alpha 2 of Ubuntu 9.04, was that it included OpenOffice.org 2.4 - What?!?! It's an alpha! it should be bleeding edge and include the latest software! (correction: yeah, alpha is not about bleeding edge software, it's about bleeding edge OS)
Even sister (daughter?) distros like Super Ubuntu and so already include it!

I really hope we get OO.org 3 in the final version!

Whenever opening .txt files on OpenOffice.org, Writer shows a simple window [1], where the user has access to many different options for converting the file the best way possible. One problem with this is that it is not possible to tell if the selected options are going to give the desired result.

For OpenOffice Writer, in recent files, only display the most recently accessed DOCUMENT files.

Likewise, for OpenOffice Calc, in recent files, only display
the most recently accessed SPREADSHEET files.

Currenly in either application, the most recently opened OpenOffice files are displayed. When one is using Calc, the recent document files are not relevant nor helpful. Likewise when one is using Writer.

Hope this is not a duplicate.